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@@ -5,20 +5,20 @@ previews](http://jdk8.java.net/download.html) right now, and I think you
should, even if you don't like Java very much. There's so much _potential_ in
there.
-## The "One More Thing"
+## The “One More Thing”
The Java 8 release comes with a slew of notable library improvements: the new
[`java.time`](http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/150) package, designed by the folks
behind the extremely capable Joda time library; [reflective
access](http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/118) to parameter names; [Unicode
6.2](http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/133) support; numerous others. But all of
-these things are dwarfed by the "one last thing":
+these things are dwarfed by the “one last thing”:
**Lambdas**.
## Ok, So..?
-Here's the thing: all of the "modern" languages that see regular use - C#,
+Here's the thing: all of the “modern” languages that see regular use - C#,
Python, Ruby, the various Lisps including Clojure, and Javascript - have
language features allowing easy creation and use of one-method values. In
Python, that's any object with a `__call__` method (including function
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ features allow _computation itself_ to be treated as a value and passed
around, which in turn provides a very powerful and succinct mechanism for
composing features.
-Java's had the "use" side down for a long time; interfaces like `Runnable` are
-a great example of ways to expose "function-like" or "procedure-like" types to
+Java's had the “use” side down for a long time; interfaces like `Runnable` are
+a great example of ways to expose “function-like” or “procedure-like” types to
the language without violating Java's bureaucratic attitude towards types and
objects. However, the syntax for creating these one-method values has always
been so verbose and awkward as to discourage their use. Consider, for example,
-a simple "task" for a thread pool:
+a simple “task” for a thread pool:
pool.execute(new Runnable() {
@Override
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ a simple "task" for a thread pool:
Even leaving out the optional-but-recommended `@Override` annotation, that's
still five lines of code that only exist to describe to the compiler how to
package up a block as an object. Yuck. For more sophisticated tasks, this sort
-of verbosity has lead to multi-role "event handler" interfaces, to amortize
+of verbosity has lead to multi-role “event handler” interfaces, to amortize
the syntactic cost across more blocks of code.
With Java 8's lambda support, the same (dumb) example collapses to
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ software.
## Event-Driven Systems
-As an example, I knocked together a simple "event driven IO" system in an
+As an example, I knocked together a simple “event driven IO” system in an
evening, loosely inspired by node.js. Here's the echo server I wrote as an
example application, in its entirety:
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ example application, in its entirety:
}
}
-It's got a bad case of Javascript "arrow" disease, but it demonstrates the
+It's got a bad case of Javascript “arrow” disease, but it demonstrates the
expressive power of lambdas for callbacks. This is built on NIO, and runs in a
single thread; as with any decent multiplexed-IO application, it starts to
have capacity problems due to memory exhaustion well before it starts to
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Terser **and** clearer than the corresponding try-with-resources version:
## Domain-Specific Languages
I haven't worked this one out, yet, but I think it's possible to use lambdas
-to implement conversational interfaces, similar in structure to "fluent"
+to implement conversational interfaces, similar in structure to “fluent”
interfaces like
[UriBuilder](http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/ws/rs/core/UriBuilder.html).
If I can work out the mechanics, I'll put together an example for this, but